The Revelation Series - Eyes as a Flame of Fire

The Revelation Series - His Hair White as Wool and Eyes as a Flame of Fire

Revelation 1:14 “And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;”

His eyes were as a flame of fire.  If you explore the Greek words for flame and fire they mean just what they say.  So how could his eyes be as fire and how can I understand that?  We that are His should ask these questions?  How do we understand John’s description of the Son of Man?  There are many teachers who get into the Book of Revelation and seem to gloss over the fact that John says in the opening Chapter that he saw one like the Son of Man IN the churches.  And He doesn’t just say he saw JESUS in the churches, John gives a description of How he saw HIM.

The Lord has drawn my mind to this description.  Christ was appearing in the church in a very specific way.  I believe His appearing here is our completion.  “We are complete in Him.”  Remember, the seven churches were seen as pure gold.  Gold in the Bible is speaking of the divine nature and substance of the Lord.  How the church comes to the divine nature is through the ONE who is seen in Him, who is the refiner’s fire.  I believe this description is speaking of His fullness.  Paul writes in His epistles that we are filled with the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19). In Ephesians 1, Paul writes “the church which is His Body, the fullness of HIM, who fills all in all.”  We could consider this as saying Christ fills all members of the church with all the fullness and substance of Himself, “all in all.”

His eyes were flames of fire.  Where do we find these eyes as flames of fire in the scripture?  In Revelation 1:4 we are introduced to seven Spirits of God before the throne.  In Chapter 4:5 John sees these seven Spirits of God before the throne when he is caught up into the open door in heaven through the Voice as the Sound of a Trumpet.    Here before the throne are “seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”   We connect the seven Spirits of God to the seven Lamps of Fire.  We should understand that seven speaks throughout the scripture of the Day of Rest and Completion.  Our completion is in Christ.

The seven Spirits and seven Eyes are gathered up into the Lamb of God.  In Chapter 5, John sees a Book in the hand of the One on the throne that no man could open.  But behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.  John sees Him standing as a Lamb having seven horns and seven eyes, which I believe represents the fullness of God, all power (seven horns) and all knowing (seven eyes).  Here we find these seven eyes in the Lamb who was able to Open the Book and release the seals thereof, which I believe represents the judgement of the cross which came upon natural Israel unto perdition and to the church as the grace of the New Covenant of God that we now stand within.  Every believer through the ages stands within the work Christ has done, and the Covenant He has set forth within the earth.

Revelation 5:6 “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” 

His eyes of fire are transforming and purifying fire.  Malachi writes the LORD shall come to His Temple and sit as a refiner’s fire and purify the sons of Levi.  Malachi is speaking of the purifying of silver and gold.  Silver and gold are purified in the fire to remove unwanted substances.  John the Baptist writes we shall be Baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire.  Jesus is seen standing in the Seven Churches which are pure gold.  He is the refiner’s fire in the midst of the Church, which is His temple.  We are to see through His Sight and in the vision of Him we are refined, purified.  Our knowing moves from the earthy knowing of the Adamic man to the heavenly knowing of Christ.  We see through the work Christ has done and are purified through His work. 

As Paul writes to the Romans we are Baptized into His death.   Jesus told James and John that He had a Baptism to be baptized with, and that they would participate in it.  This is exactly what happens by the Spirit.  We partake of the death of Christ.  In this participation with Him by the Spirit we come to KNOW EXPERIANTIALLY in our heart that we are dead to the elements of the world, just as Paul writes in his epistles.  We are dead to sin.  We are dead to the law.  We are crucified to the world.  Why do we experience such a great death, that we may be filled with the Life and Substance of another, even Jesus Christ our Lord!